BNL Contents Index
Nov. 1994 to Oct. 1995
Volume XXII

253 Nov. 1994:

LEROY TROY: Uncle Dave Would Be Proud. 1989 Jimmy Arnold Interview with Bobby Cherry. Owensboro `94 (ONR); Playing the Melody (BC); Earl's Way; Moving Up; Reviews: Hatfield's Bluegrass Banjo Vol. 2 & You Are Your Instrument; Melodic Lead & Scruggs Back-Up (BU); Music of Maritimes (MC); Southern Clawhammer; Learning the Fingerboard, Part 3: The Sequential Chord Form Formula (CS). TABS: Auld Lang Syne (BC), Steamboat Whistle Blues (EW), Bluebirds Calling (MU), Redwing (BU), Darlin' Nelly Grey (MC), Yellow Barber (OT)

254 Dec. 1994:

ROB MAIRS: Scottish Classic Banjo. Banjo In The Hollow (OTR); Banjo Solos (BU); Playing The Melody, Part 3 (BC); The Fingerboard, Part 4 (CS); Reviews: Geiger Chord Pro, Masters of the 5-String CD; O'Banjo; Learning By Ear (MC); The Rhythm Rats (SC); Kaiser Roll or Forward Roll; The Workshop by Jim Pankey. TABS: Teddy Bears Picnic (CB), O Holy Night (BU), Greensleeves, White Christmas, Kansas City Railroad Blues (OB), Auld Lang Syne (BC), St. Anne's Reel (SS), Sweet Sixteen (OT), Plaza Polka (MC).

255 Jan. 1995:

ALISON BROWN. BNL Editor's Choices for 1994, BNL `94 Survey comments. Earl & Randy Scruggs; Earl's Way; Taking Care of your Hands; Palying The Melody Part 4 (BC); Counterpoint Banjo (Clawhammer-M Miles); Blues Banjo (Furtado); Chords & Progressions (CS); Childish Love by Sandy Rothman & Herb Pederson; Winterizing your banjo (Stelling); Endings; Playing In C w/out capo. Reviews: Dix Bruce's Backup Trax for 5-string; TABS: American Made World Played (SC), Leaving Cottondale (Alison Brown), Auld Lang Syne (BC), Planxty Denis O'Conor & Andante by Vivaldi (lead & harmony), Down Greasy Creek (Furtado), Childish Love (2 versions), Bile Them Cabbage Down, Back Up & Push (in C).

256 Feb. 1995:

ROB McCOURY. Letters, BNL Survey Results. Allen Banjo; Banjo Physics- Holographics (Piekiel), On The Road, Fiddle Tunes, Southern Clawhammer, Fleckology; Chords & Progressions Part 2-Seventh Chords (CS), Moving Up; Helpful Hints- To Upgrade or Not; MC; 2 JD Crowe tabs. Reviews: Price Straightline Tailpiece, Mel Bay's Clawhammer Book; TABS: Cheaters In The Soup (McCoury), Swinging On A Gate (Melodic), Texas (OT), Tell It To The Gov'nor (Fleck), Love Please Come Home (MU), Beaumont Rag (MC), Cheyenne (JDC), Runaround (JDC).

257 Mar. 1995:

BOB CARLIN. Minstrel Banjo (Tony Trischka tab); Fiddle Tune (Over The Waterfall), The Bounce Part 1 (BC); More Single String; O'Banjo; Rare Earl; Basic Syncopation (MC); Endings (BU); New England Clawhammer; Earl's Back-up (EW); SPBGMA `95 (OTR). Reviews: Minstrel Banjo Styles CD & Osborne Bros. Video; TABS: Git Up In De Mornin' (Minstrel), Over The Waterfall, Grandfather's Clock (BC), Open Faced Reel (SS), Miles To Go (O'B), Gonna Have Myself A Ball (EW), Buffalo Gals (OT/MC), Come Dance & Sing (OT), Prince William (OT), Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine (EW-BU).

258 Apr. 1995:

J.D. CROWE. Part 1-Interview by Marty Godbey. Doug Hutchens & Roy's Own Picks. 26 JD Crowe-style endings (BU); The Bounce, Part 2 (BC); Tabs of Craig Smith; Music Theory Q & A (CS); Triplets (MC); Lynn Morris Clawhammer (OTR); Minstrel Styles & Walt Koken (SC). Reviews: Play Back Up Video by Janet Davis & Playing In C by Eddie Collins. TABS: Hold Whatcha Got & You Can Have Her (JD Crowe), Baby Had A Banjo (EW), Someday When You're Lonely & When You & I Were Young Maggie (Craig Smith), Sean Ryan's Polka (MC), Beasties In The Sugar (SC), TurnaroundS In C, 26 J.D. Crowe-style endings.

259 May 1995:

BELA FLECK Interview By Alison Brown. Part 2 of JD Crowe Interview. Fleckology; Béla's Bluegrass Back-up (BU); The Diminished 7th Chord (CS); On The Road; Melodic Clawhammer, Clinch Mountain Banjo, Good Tone (Stelling), Earl's Way. TABS: Waiting For You (Crowe), Sinister Minister (Fleck), Fireball Mail (Fleck- BU), A LIttle At A Time (CMB), Deep Elum Blues (MC)

260 Jun. 1995:

JIM MILLS Interview by Marty Godbey. Remembering Carroll Best. Jim Mills tabs by Silvio Ferretti; A Gospel Tune (BU); Troubleshooting Tabs (BC); Tuning Your Banjo (MC); O'Banjo; Irish & Celtic Banjo: Tom Hanway; The Augmented 5th Chord (CS); More of the Misfits (OTR); Moving Up. Reviews: The Thumm-Flat pick, Tab Books of Sammy Shelor, Tom Hanway, Bill Knopf, Larry Vanek & John Bullard; The Nechville Nuvo by Marc Horowitz. TABS: Trouble Keeps Hanging Around Your Door & Now There's You (Mills), The Little White Church (Mills-BU), Sitting On Top Of The World (Shelor), Gavotte by Bach, The Flying Cloud Cotillion (MC), I'll Be On That Good Road Someday (OB), Kitty's Wedding (CB), Darcy Farrow (MU).

261 Jul. 1995:

MARK JOHNSON: Clawgrass! Interview by Wynn Osborne. Mark, My Word! (SC); 1994 Winfield Banjo Champ Jonathon Jones; Bill Knopf Tab; Changing Keys in Gospel (BU); Potpourri, Pt 1 (BC); Earl Instrumentals (EW); Reviews: Banjo Play- Along Tapes by Steve Kaufman & Ross Nickerson; Short Reviews: Robins, Carlin, Hartford, Chris Sands, Rounder Banjo, Bass Mt. Boys; Banjo on the Internet; Locating the Bridge Using an Electronic Tuner; Melodic Duets. TABS: Blackberry Blossom, North Carolina Breakdown (OT); Never Going Back Again (Bill Knopf), Colored Aristocracy (OT), Flowers of Edinburgh (Melodic duets-FH), I'll Fly Away (EW), Katie Hill, Rock of Ages (BU).

262 Aug. 1995:

DANNY BARNES of the Bad Livers. Barnes' Picking Style (Eddie Collins); Barnes Back-Up; Profile: Walt Koken (Clawhammer); Beginner's Corner Potpourri Pt. 2; Reviewing the Earl Scruggs Revue; A Revue Tab (EW); New from AcuTab: Emerson & Baucom books; Chord Functions Pt. 1 (CS); New Alan Munde Tab; Clawhammer in U.K. & Europe (MC); Women In Bluegrass (OTR) TABS: Stevejames (Barnes), Blue Ridge Express (Barnes), Candy Man (OT), Whiskey Before Breakfast (OT), Taveling Prayer (EW), Cold Sheets of Rain (Baucom), True Blue (Emerson), Amarillo Highway (Munde), Dinah (OT/MC).

263 Sep. 1995:

DENNIS CAPLINGER of Bluegrass Etc. Hands (MC); Profile: Julie Elkins of New Vintage; Basics of Scruggs Style (BC); Old Joe Clark in E? (TW); 21 Fill-In Licks (BU); Winterhawk: On The Stelling Side; Don Wayne Reno's Instructional Video; Chord Functions Pt 2 (CS); Playing On Stage (OTR); Earl's Way TABS: Blues In Grey (Caplinger), Durang's Hornpipe (Caplin.), Old Country Waltz (MC/OT), Trevor Travis (Elkins), No Mother Or Dad (BC), Old Joe Clark, 5 x 8 (Don Reno), Blue Goose (OT), Chicken In The Snowbank (OT) TAB INDEX Volume XXII: Nov. 1994 - Sept. 1995.

264 Oct. 1995:

SCOTT VESTAL Interview by Dan Mazer. Rhythmic Emphasis (Vestal?BU) MC Fleckology Blue Banjo (Furtado) Scruggs Revue (EW) Reviews: Wynn Osborne and Bill Keith Chord Functions Part 3: Minor Chords (CS) Pick-up Bands (OTR) Moving Up in G & D REVIEW: Pete Wernick's Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo Instructional Video Old-Time Clawhammer Midi Banjo TABS: Benny Hill, In Pursuit of Happiness(Vestal), Love, Please Come Home.